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Guatemalan Vigilantism and the Global (Re)Production of Collective Violence A Tale of Two Lynchings
By Gavin Weston
Copyright 2020
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book grounds an understanding of lynching as an increasingly globalised phenomenon through an examination of two cases in Guatemala. The chapters cover issues of migration, tourism, gangs, inter-generational conflict, media, gossip, and rumour to understand national and global patterns of mob-based vigilantism and how diverse factors are funnelled into singular acts of violence. Gavin... Read more
Chapter 1 – Introduction: Two lynchings – a microcosm
Chapter 2 – Todos Santos
Chapter 3 – A Post-war Phenomenon?
Chapter 4 – Vigilantism, Dissonance, and the Guatemalan State
Chapter 5 – Scapegoats, Gossip, and Rumour
Chapter 6 – Dissemination: Vigilantism, and the Media
Chapter 7 – The Blurred Boundaries of Violence
Chapter 8 – Concluding thoughts/lingering problems
Biography
Gavin Weston is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
